"Hello, student. This is Ryan. As of July 2024, I have instructed over a thousand students in introductory Physics and Astronomy classes. I graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s in Physics and Mathematics (double major) from Wheaton College (Norton, MA). For my honors thesis I developed a magnetohydrodynamics code in Python. Subsequently, I earned my PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of Michigan. After living in München, Deutschland (Munich, Germany) for nearly two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, I served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

My former students have successfully landed summer internships at Cambridge, the European Space Agency, and Oxford. Several former students received PhD acceptances, such as at Toledo University and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. My colleagues are professors at Princeton University, Caltech, Cornell, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Chicago, and many more.

My research involves how galaxies make stars, dark matter, and black holes using computational methods. As such, I am well versed in a variety of fields, spanning physics, mathematics, and computer science. I run my simulations on some of the world’s largest supercomputers. Therefore, developing efficient code in Fortran, C, C++, and Python is my bread & butter :)

I have worked with over a dozen undergraduate and several graduate students one-on-one, teaching them from the ground-up how to use Python, Unix, solve differential equations, etc. to the point they ran their own simulations and published their research in internationally respected journals.

I was appointed the Physics tutor at the career center during my undergraduate studies, and I have tutored dozens of students in Physics and Mathematics during my Bachelors and PhD.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a lesson, contact me." less...